Our thanks to William Trousdale, who permitted FIBIS to create this searchable database of the A-Z name index found in his book, The British in Afghanistan, vol I.
Below is a list of the most frequently used abbreviations and acronyms.
Surname
Durand
First Names
Henry Mortimer
Rank
Mr
Regiment / Department
Bengal CS Civil Service Political Officer
Medal Rolls
MR8
Source abbrevs
SH126 / HAAL79 / HAAL80 / HAAL81 / HAAL82
Bibliography / Text abbrevs
biog The Right Honourable Sir Mortimer Durand a biography
Original Text from book
Durand, Mr. Henry Mortimer, Bengal C.S. Political Officer attached to Maj.-Gen. F.S. Roberts staff in second phase of war, Northern Afghanistan Field Force, MR8, SH126, HAAL:79, p. 749, HAAL:80, p. 748, HAAL:81, p. 757, HAAL:82, P. 759; biog. by Sir Percy Sykes, The Right Honourable Sir Mortimer Durand: a biography, London: Cassell, 1926 [later prominent in British diplomacy (Ed.)]
Systematic Compilation of Officers, Other Ranks, Civil Officials, and Other Individuals Present in Afghanistan during The Second Afghan War. Annotated with references to military service, diaries, memoirs, biographies and photographs.
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